男孩哈勒姆(杰米•贝尔 Jamie Bell 饰)自小就十分依恋母亲,他喜欢拿着妈妈的东西胡闹:拿眼线笔画眼线、拿唇膏到处涂抹、用妈妈的耳钉帮自己穿耳洞……然而,他的母亲却突然离世了,之后他的爸爸娶了他的继母。哈勒姆十分悲伤,正处在青春叛逆期的他怀疑母亲是被他的继母谋害的。于是,哈勒姆把自己慢慢于是隔绝开来,经常喜欢独自一人在树屋内远远的偷窥着别人,为的是能探究出母亲的死亡之谜,帮她复仇……The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide by drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh after an overdose of sleeping pills. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe, accusing her of killing his mother. After a discussion with his father Julius Foe, Hallam sneaks out from his house and travels to Edinburgh, where he sees Kate Breck and becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his mother. Kate hires Hallam to work in the kitchen of the hotel where she works and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity in the hardest way.